WTO notification · TBT
BahrainProposed measure, may since have been adopted
Official title
Draft Ministerial Order regarding banning single-use plastic bags with thickness less than 57 microns in the Bahraini market.
Bahrain notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 23 October 2025. The comment period closed on 22 December 2025.
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Published here:
Single-use plastic bags of thickness less than 57 microns (ICS: 83.140.99)
The comment period closed on 22 December 2025. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO TBT enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/TBT/N/BHR/751; it can take them up with Bahrain.
Find your country's enquiry point on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)The purpose of this Ministerial Order is to ban single-use plastic bags with the thickness of less than 57 microns in the Bahraini market, with exempting the following: · Bags for collecting household waste (garbage) and hazardous healthcare waste. · Bags for packaging, whether directly in contact with food or medicines. Bags manufactured for export.
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